In my undergraduate thesis, I analyze the issue of erecting and dismantling monuments, focusing on a period when these monuments were prominently established. I demonstrate that, due to certain characteristics of the totalitarian regime with which they were associated in question, these monuments are regarded as conflict heritage and are often torn down following a change in power. As a case study, I examine the monument to Stalin on Letná Hill in Prague and the Metronome sculpture that stands there today.
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